LISTEN TO ANNIE

Finally, someone has asked the question I have so wanted to hear asked. It’s my gal Annie – I have a crush on her insightful brilliance and oozing sarcasm. Of course I’m talking about Ann Coulter.
On FOX News this morning she asked the question: what did Bill Ayers see in Barack Obama? Everyone is trying to figure out whether Obama has said anything to indicate that he agrees with Ayers positions or has taken political counsel from Ayers. Everyone who loves America that is, lefties just give Obama a pass on this as well as everything else. Well there doesn’t seem to be a smoking gun. Obama is pretty careful about what he says and he is expert at covering his tracks.
I think the whole issue has been approached from the wrong end. Ann’s question is the pertinent one. What did Ayers see in Obama that prompted him to appoint Obama to the chair of his newly created Chicago Annenberg Challenge? Why did Ayers open his home to launch Obama’s political career?
Is Ayers so politically naïve that he has inadvertently supported the career of a politician with whom he has a fundamental difference of philosophy? Did Obama deceive Ayers as to what his own political philosophy is? Are they at odds over their political goals? I don’t think so.
So what is Ayers political philosophy? He summed it up in 1970, “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” (And this preposition dangler teaches English?) So, Ayers wants a violent revolution in America. He himself, and his dear wife, actively participated in the violence, setting bombs and provoking others to murderous acts.
According to Obama, that was then and this is now. Obama was just a child when Ayers said these things, so it’s okay. But Obama wasn’t a child in 2001 when Ayers said he regretted not having done more bombings. What is the statute of limitations on terrorism anyway? Will Osama be respectable in thirty years? Will some University spend your money and mine to hire him as a professor of Middle Eastern Studies? Will he open his home to an aspiring young politician for a fund raiser? Maybe he’ll start a madrasah in Chicago and appoint a future president of the former United States as the Chairman of the Board.
For me there is no statute of limitations on those who hate my beloved country. I have sat on many boards, have chaired some, been an executive officer of several; in each and every case, I was chosen because I was in essential agreement with the mission and world-view of the organization, and I recommended others for board positions based on the same criteria. Never have I, nor ever would I, sit on the board of an organization that could find common ground with a despicable human being such as terrorist Ayers. Yes Obama, as you have consitently said, his acts were despicable, but you miss the point, HE IS DESPICABLE Barack Obama; too despicable to associate with. Guilt by association you say? Absolutely! If you wallow in manure, you stink.
I want no associate of William Ayers anywhere near the white house. If Ayers approves of him, if some organization finds common ground with both of them, let them rot in infamy together. For the sake of all that is holy, decent, democratic and American, vote against the ascension of Ayer’s buddy Barack to the highest office in this free country.
Thank you Annie, for asking the pertinent question. What does Ayers see in Obama?